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• The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I regularly drive my horseless carriage to see moving pictures, whenever I receive a coupon via electric mail.

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is how we would talk if English were more like German. Why invent new words when we can just combine old ones? Glove = hand shoe, turtle = shield toad, raccoon = wash bear, etc.

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    • aeronmelon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is why German words have ten syllables?

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      • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah, pretty much, they just mash a bunch of words together.

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    • The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lol, these are great. I want more.

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      • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        One interesting one is porcupine = spine pig. The English word means the same thing, but latin-based stead of germanic.

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• Psaldorn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Car is short for carriage

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